Hi Ruf, You can modify the resolution at the time you export. It's under the PSF options at the bottom of the dialog.
Sent from Rob's Palm On Dec 23, 2011, at 4:22 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de> wrote: > Am 22.12.2011 18:52, schrieb Gregory Pittman: >> On 12/22/2011 12:26 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: >>> Am 22.12.2011 15:06, schrieb Gregory Pittman: >>>> >>>> I just made a PDF of some vacation photos, for which I had to break up >>>> the Scribus document so that I could work with them in Scribus, then >>>> used pdftk to join them. The result was a >700MB PDF, in which I saw no >>>> problems. >>>> >>>> Greg >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Do you want to make a photobook out of it? That's what I'm trying here. >>> But the service I found will only accept up to 300 MB, so I worry a bit. >>> How do you send 700 MB? Or do you burn a CD? >> >> Actually, I did this for a presentation on a large HD TV, and it worked >> well. >> >> If I were going to get it printed, I would have bothered to resize >> images, which I'm sure would make it much smaller. >> >> Greg >> > > Yes, I did read about this in the Wiki and played around with the settings. > The photos I use have "only" 6 Megapixels, ca. 2000 x 3000. I thought they > should have 300 dpi at least to appear properly in the print, do you agree? > > With the first 12 pages, I tried to set "Compress photos to 100 dpi" first, > resulting in 15 MB for the PDF. But viewing the resulting PDF with 400 % on > screen, I found the photos had too big pixels to be printed sharp. When I say > "compress to 300 dpi", the resulting PDF has 44 MB, but the photos appear > sharp enough. Or is that on-screen impression misleading? > > Sizing down each photo which is to appear somewhat smaller before inserting > it into Scribus is a lot of painful work, isn't it? Could this be achieved by > Scribus itself? (Haven't tried that yet, though there is a dialog which seems > to do right that. But when I see that an untouched photo which appears in a > smaller size on the page has merely 440 dpi, would it be worth to cut it down > to 300 anyway?) > > In Gimp, I found two dialogs which look like they could do that, but I don't > know for sure how they actually work. > > So I decided to go on with the creative part :-) and layout the pages first > and hoped to stay under the 300 MB limit. > > Regards > > Rolf > > (I don't know when you will answer, maybe I'm out here soon, so have a nice > Christmas, I'll read afterwards...) > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net
